Alois Lang

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Alois Lang was a Bavarian-born master woodcarver whose apprenticeship in Oberammergau and study under Fortunato Galli in Florence shaped a career that helped bring medieval ecclesiastical carving into American church architecture. After immigrating to the United States in 1890, he worked in Boston before joining the American Seating Company, later relocating with the firm to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became known for intricate religious carvings installed in churches across the country. His work — reredoses, screens, altars, and Last Supper interpretations — appears in congregations from Chicago and Boston to Pasadena and St Louis, and in 1946 he received recognition from the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts and Letters for his contribution to the arts. - AsNotedIn